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CHAPTER ELEVEN

LIAM SPENT THE week in court Just before the noon recess on Friday, the judge, who’d been expected to take the matter under advisement, ruled in favor of the parents of the seventeen-year-old Douglas boy

He had deep co man that while his convictions were important, the unfortunate truth was that he had a physical ailment that requiredHe’d hoped that it wouldn’t come until at least Monday He and Gabrielle were booked on a flight to Fort Lauderdale at eight o’clock that evening Now, before packing and preparing toto be writing about another teenager’s heartache

But even if he didn’t have tiht had been creeping into his thoughts on and off all week As he’d sat in court, he’d wondered howthe stand to testify to the character of the boy suing his parents

He bade goodbye to his bodyguard via text as he and Gabrielle went through security at the airport He hadn’t seen Tanner at the airport, but he was getting used to knowing that anytime he was out of his home, he had a shadow

Nothing had come of the letter that had been left at Marie’s shop The threat it conveyed hadn’t been specific—a wish for him to suffer as he and his father had caused others to suffer

His father had apparently been getting hate mail on and off for years Stood to reason that now that Lia at Connelly Invester

Whatever, it wasn’t so to worry about

“She’s probably going to think I’ate at Denver International, waiting to board the plane He was flying coach for the first time

“She kno old you are” Croere closing in on the door as the tirew closer, but they had no need to join in Gabi had relented and let hi

He could still be in the lounge if he wanted to be He’d never wanted to be

For that matter, he could certainly afford to fly first class if he’d wanted to do so But Gabrielle couldn’t And she wasn’t allowing hiht

He was going to, when he paid her bill at the end of the month, but she didn’t know that

And cutting corners where he could, financially speaking, wasn’t a bad thing It had become very clear to him that money didn’t last forever

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